Macintosh Internet Access Kit

The Macintosh Internet Access Kit (MIAK) for Mac OS X provides everything most people need for connecting to the U-M computing environment, ITS services and the Internet.

You can download at no cost the whole kit or individual components of the MIAK from the Blue Disc website.

This document is updated as necessary. If you already have an Internet connection, we recommend you view the latest version.

LEGAL NOTICE: The software installed by this kit is licensed for current University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff as well as U-M Online subscribers. If you leave U-M and do not subscribe to U-M Online, you must remove the installed software from your computer.

Hardware and Software Requirements

High-speed Internet connection: campus Ethernet network (including Residential Halls), a DSL telephone line (including Family Housing DSL [FH-DSL]), or a cable modemDON'T HAVE HIGH-SPEED INTERNET? Download the software at a Campus Computing Site and copy it to a portable medium, such as a CD or USB Flash drive.

What's Installed

Fugu 1.2 securely transfers files between computers that support SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol). Use Fugu to access your AFS Home Directory, a secure storage space for your files that is automatically backed up nightly. Fugu uses SSL security  the same used by Internet retailers  to protect your files and your UMICH Kerberos password.

Three SSH shortcuts for the Mac OS X Terminal program allow you to establish secure ssh connections to special U-M servers, provided that you have permission to access them. They may be available in your Dock if you selected that option.

ITS Login Service (login.itd.umich.edu)CAEN Login Service (login.engin.umich.edu)Statistics and Computation Service (scs.itd.umich.edu)

U-M Custom Bookmarks adds a folder containing commonly used University of Michigan bookmarks to the Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera web browsers.

NOTE: The U-M Custom Bookmarks component replaces your current bookmarks and creates a backup copy in the folder where bookmarks are stored for each respective web browser. Instructions for restoring your previous bookmarks are included in the Read Me screen of the Mac Internet Access Kit installer. You may wish to print that screen for future reference.